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Crime scene technicians work around a covered body on 5th Avenue after the shooting outside the Empire State Building on Friday. Authorities say a gunman shot and killed a former co-worker and was then killed himself by police in a gunfight that left nine other people injured.

Satellite image released by NOAA shows Tropical Storm Isaac south-southwest of the Dominican Republic in the Caribbean. Haiti hunkered down Friday as forecasters warned that Tropical Storm Isaac could drench the impoverished country still recovering from a deadly earthquake.

Children look out at the beach as Tropical Storm Isaac approaches. Isaac strengthened slightly as it spun toward the Dominican Republic and Haiti, but seemed unlikely to gain enough steam early Friday to strike the island of Hispaniola as a hurricane.

Chinese cosplay enthusiasts attend the 2012 Animation and Comics Fair. Cosplay, short for "costume play" inspired by manga, anime or comics characters, originated in Japan in the mid-1990s and has grown in popularity among youth in China despite the ongoing disputes between the two countries over islands in the East China Seas known as Diaoyudao or Senkaku islands.

People mourn the death of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, outside the national palace, the official residence of the prime minister. Thousands gathered outside the entrance to the palace to grieve, four days after Zenawi died of an unknown illness.

Alan Lawrence, skipper of the yacht Intasure Hooligan, looks for wind ahead of the Lipton Cup sailing regatta in False Bay. The Lipton Cup, for which only L26 boats are eligible, is the oldest and most prestigious regatta of its kind in Africa.

Jose Eduardo dos Santos and MPLA supporters gather at the Square of Independence. Angola will hold general elections on Aug. 31, which will define the composition of parliament and the names of the president and vice president of the republic.

A Sunni gunman fires his AK-47 machine gun during clashes that erupted between pro- and anti-Syrian regime gunmen in the northern port city of Tripoli. The latest round of fighting first erupted on Monday in northern Lebanon and at least 15 have been killed in Tripoli this week and more than 100 have been wounded in fighting that is a spillover from Syria's civil war.

The Egyptian army install barbed wire fences in front of the Presidential Palace in Cairo, as anti-Morsi opposition parties and groups are expected to hold demonstrations against what they say is a Muslim Brotherhood takeover of state institutions.

Family members put a new set of clothing on the preserved body of their relative during a traditional ritual called "Ma'nene" in Indonesia. The ritual is held once every few years when family members gather to clean the graves and change the clothes of their deceased relatives to honor their spirits.

Police arrest a group asylum seekers from Iraq who have exhausted their rights to appeal at the Immigration and Naturalization Service. The Iraqis were calling for their asylum application to be reexamined.

Indian laborers load coal into trucks at a warehouse at the Bari Bharmana railway station. India's opposition lawmakers have demanded Premier Manmohan Singh's resignation after a report that the country lost $33 billion by allocating coal mine licenses instead of auctioning them.

A street entertainer covered in gold performs for pedestrians. In Portugal, the historical home of some of Europe's biggest gold reserves, the number of jewelry stores, which include cash-for-gold shops, increased 29% in 2011 from a year earlier, a study commissioned by parliament found.

Protesters rally outside the courthouse for the sentencing of the killer of white supremacist Eugene TerreBlanche. Chris Mahlangu received a life sentence two years after TerreBlanche was hacked and bludgeoned to death.

The former Tempelhof Airport is turned into an indoor campground at the Campus Party 2012 technology festival. The Campus Party brings together 10,000 technology enthusiasts, hackers, nerds and bloggers for five days to concentrate on finding solutions to five problems proposed through the European Digital Agenda from the European Commission.

American tourist Ella uses an iPad while riding a Wi-Fi-outfitted donkey led by her brother Aaron, in Kfar Kedem, a biblical reenactment park in the village of Hoshaya in the Galilee. Visitors riding donkeys through the Old Testament landscape can now also surf the Web while being transported across the land of the Bible. Organizers are hoping to connect the younger generation to ancient Galilean life while allowing them to like, share, tweet and snap the experience instantly to their friends.

Simon, a border collie owned by Bailey Waite, of Salina, Kan., dives for a tennis ball during Pooch Plunge at Kenwood Cove water park. It was the last day the water park was open for the season. Dog owners were allowed to bring their pets to the pool for a swim from 5 to 8 p.m.

An Arab boy jumps into the Mediterranean sea from the ancient wall surrounding the old city of Acre during the third day of Eid al-Fitr. One of the most important holidays in the Muslim world, Eid al-Fitr is marked with prayers, family reunions and other festivities.

Endurance swimmer Diana Nyad is aided after she was pulled out of the water between while trying for the fourth time to swim across the Florida Straits from Cuba to the Keys. Nyad turns 63 on Wednesday.

A Pakistani family rides on a camel at Clifton beach to celebrate the second day of the religious festival of Eid al-Fitr. People traditionally visit the homes of their relatives and friends, and enjoy outdoor entertainment to celebrate the festival marking the end of the month of Ramadan.

Red Cross and Sea rescue members, and Spanish Civil Guard agents, help some immigrants as they arrive in southern Spain. An inflatable boat with 52 sub-Saharan immigrants onboard was intercepted four miles off Alboran Island in Almeria while they were trying to reach the coast.

Indian Muslims attend traditional prayer during the Eid al-Fitr festival at the ruins of the Feroz Shah Kotla mosque. Muslims around the world celebrate the Eid al-Fitr festival and observe Eid-al-Fitr, which marks the end of Ramadan.

Dancers of the Feeling Fantasy dance studio perform during the 43rd Debrecen Flower Festival. Hungarians celebrate St. Stephen's Day on Monday, one of the most important national holidays commemorating the foundation of their state.

A pedestrian walks past a giant graffiti artwork of an eye painted on a wall. Greece's troika of international creditors, the ECB, the European Commission and the International Monetary Fund, will return to Athens in early September to assess progress as the Samaras administration seeks to hammer out 11.5 billion euros in budget cuts for 2013 and 2014.

Supporters of Julian Assange, the founder of the WikiLeaks whistle-blowing website, wait outside the Ecuadorian Embassy where Assange has been living since June in London. Several South American nations have declared their support for Ecuador's decision to grant asylum to Assange while he faces extradition to Sweden over allegations of sexual assault.

Indian villagers perform a religious ritual over a dead wild elephant at Kiranchandra Tea garden. Indian forest officials had previously treated this injured wild elephant in the India-Nepal border area for a bullet injury after its herd was attacked by Nepalese villagers in Nepal's Jhapa district.

One of the suspects involved in an attack on Palestinian youths is escorted by an Israeli policeman into the Magistrate's Court in Jerusalem. Jerusalem police arrested three Jewish teens suspected of a brutal hate attack on young Palestinians, and magistrates remanded in custody another suspect detained a day ago.

Visitors to Gatorama's Alligator Hatching Festival watch as a baby alligator emerges from its shell near Palmdale, Fla. The animal park got 3,233 alligator eggs from this year's harvest of more than 37,000 eggs gathered by state-sponsored hunters. In the wild only 2% of the gators will mature but at the park 98% will mature. Visitors to the park can hold a egg in their hands and watch the baby gator being hatched.

Bardog Tavern bartender Amanda Parks taunts the crowd to get them to try their hand at the dunk tank during the bar's alley party following the 3rd Annual Breakaway Runners/Bardog Tavern 5k benefiting St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.

The Week in Pictures | August 20 – 26, 2012

Free Syrian Army fighters take cover as they exchange fire with regime forces in Syria’s northern city of Aleppo. Meanwhile, refugees at the Syrian border with Turkey wait in hopes of entering a refugee camp, and gunmen move from street to street during clashes that erupted between supporters and opponents of the Syrian regime in Tripoli.

Weather is on display with time exposure of a thunderstorm showing multiple lightning strikes over Zurich, Switzerland. In the Caribbean, Tropical Storm Isaac is south-southwest of the Dominican Republic. Haiti will hunker down Friday as forecasters warned that Isaac could drench the impoverished country still recovering from a deadly earthquake.

In Europe, fans soak up the atmosphere at the Main Stage during Day 1 of Reading Festival 2012 in England, and a woman surfs in the waves of the so-called Eisbach canal, a popular site for surfers in the English Garden in Munich, Germany; and in nearby Berlin, 10,000 technology enthusiasts, hackers, nerds and bloggers have gathered to work on finding solutions to five problems proposed through the European Digital Agenda from the European Commission.

On the African continent, people mourn the death of Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi outside the national palace in Addis Ababa; Angolans gather at the Square of Independence ahead of general elections next week; the Lipton Cup, the oldest and most prestigious regatta of its kind in Africa, is set to begin in False Bay; and mine workers attend a memorial service at the Lonmin platinum mine near Rustenburg, South Africa, after police shot and killed 34 striking miners and wounded 78 others.

Elsewhere, endurance swimmer Diana Nyad is aided after she was pulled out of the water while trying for the fourth time to swim from Cuba to the Florida Keys; the Air Guitar World Championships are underway in Finland; Indian villagers perform a religious ritual over a dead wild elephant at Kiranchandra Tea garden; visitors to Gatorama’s Alligator Hatching Festival watch as a baby alligator emerges from its shell in Florida; and Indian Muslims attend traditional prayer during the Eid al-Fitr festival at the ruins of the Feroz Shah Kotla mosque in New Delhi. Enjoy.